At the workplace, closest to the situation where work is performed, the employer and the local trade union can negotiate and reach local agreements. The local parties' room for maneuver is limited by laws and what is regulated in the central collective agreement. This paper deals with, among other things, what the legislature to MBL aimed at with the rules on the empowerment of workers. It also addresses what issues the central collective agreements are delegating to the local level in order to find agreements. The focus of this paper is how the MBL, the legislature's purpose and central collective agreements are affecting the scope for action of the local parties.

It turns out that when the central collective agreements are delegating... (More)

At the workplace, closest to the situation where work is performed, the employer and the local trade union can negotiate and reach local agreements. The local parties' room for maneuver is limited by laws and what is regulated in the central collective agreement. This paper deals with, among other things, what the legislature to MBL aimed at with the rules on the empowerment of workers. It also addresses what issues the central collective agreements are delegating to the local level in order to find agreements. The focus of this paper is how the MBL, the legislature's purpose and central collective agreements are affecting the scope for action of the local parties.

It turns out that when the central collective agreements are delegating issues to the local level, they often give several guidelines on how the issues should be regulated. This means that the scope for action by the local parties will be rather limited; they are not free to interpret and regulate the issues at their discretion. MBL has led to the empowerment of local trade unions, mainly by the rules stating that the employer is obliged to negotiate before a decision on major changes in the workplace. Legislature to MBL wanted 32 § MBL to inspire the local parties to establish agreements concerning co-determination. Out of the four issues I have identified, as delegated by the four central collective agreement this paper is based on, it is just in one issue the rules of the central collective agreement encourages cooperation regarding the issue in such a way that co-determination agreement would be an option. (Less)

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abstract = {At the workplace, closest to the situation where work is performed, the employer and the local trade union can negotiate and reach local agreements. The local parties' room for maneuver is limited by laws and what is regulated in the central collective agreement. This paper deals with, among other things, what the legislature to MBL aimed at with the rules on the empowerment of workers. It also addresses what issues the central collective agreements are delegating to the local level in order to find agreements. The focus of this paper is how the MBL, the legislature's purpose and central collective agreements are affecting the scope for action of the local parties.
It turns out that when the central collective agreements are delegating issues to the local level, they often give several guidelines on how the issues should be regulated. This means that the scope for action by the local parties will be rather limited; they are not free to interpret and regulate the issues at their discretion. MBL has led to the empowerment of local trade unions, mainly by the rules stating that the employer is obliged to negotiate before a decision on major changes in the workplace. Legislature to MBL wanted 32 § MBL to inspire the local parties to establish agreements concerning co-determination. Out of the four issues I have identified, as delegated by the four central collective agreement this paper is based on, it is just in one issue the rules of the central collective agreement encourages cooperation regarding the issue in such a way that co-determination agreement would be an option.},
author = {Sahlin, Emanuel},
keyword = {Kollektivavtal,MBL,lokala parter,sakfrågor,handlingsutrymme},
language = {swe},
note = {Student Paper},
title = {Handlingsutrymme för lokala parter på arbetsplatsen},
year = {2011},
}